Kindheit rainer maria rilke biography
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&#;In , in a bar just outside Oatman, Arizona, sat an old piano. Behind it there sat a seemingly older pianist. He’d been there since forever. No one could remember when he wasn’t. He played for tips and for drinks, and was happy to provide whatever music anyone wanted to hear. Occasionally he channeled the spirits of Schubert, Mahler, and Berg. Everyone had gotten kind of used to his musical meanderings over the years, and his music had led them to unexpected places. Oh yes, he talked kinda funny, and it was said he was Jewish. But I guess you suspected that.
This story is based on a story my father told me. In the early s, as a young man, he and a few other WPA-lefty-artist friends drove across the country in an old jalopy. They arrived in Oatman, Arizona—a last chance, nearly abandoned mining town. It’s still there. They had run out of money and needed to get cash to buy food, gas and, most of all, to get out of Oatman. In the café/bar, there was a sign saying &#;Dance, Satur
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Childhood
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke's "Childhood" is included in his collection Das Buch der Bilder, first published in Various writers have translated the volume as "The Book of Images" or "The Book of Pictures." The poem can also be funnen in Robert Bly's collection of translations, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke. The Book of Images was published just after The Book of Hours and just before New Poems and marks a shift in Rilke's poetic development toward more imagistic, slightly less sentimental verse. Written in thirty-three lines of rhymed iambic pentameter verse and fit into four irregular stanzas, "Childhood" addresses loneliness and the passage of time, typical subjects for Rilke, who spent his life attempting to describe the effects of time's onslaught. Rilke wrote a number of poems about childhood, including "Duration of Childhood" and "The Child." All of these poems express feelings of wonder and bafflement and grapple with the puzzle of hu
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Austrian poet and writer (–)
"Rilke" redirects here. For other uses, see Rilke (disambiguation).
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| Born | René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke ()4 December Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 29 December () (aged&#;51) Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland |
| Occupation | Poet, novelist |
| Language | German, French |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Period | – |
| Literary movement | Modernism |
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| Children | 1 |
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December &#;– 29 December ), known as Rainer Maria Rilke (German:[ˈʁaɪnɐmaˈʁiːaˈʁɪlkə]ⓘ), was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language.[1] His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief.[2][3] His writings include one no